http://www.yourstreet.com/news/new-york-city-ny The latest New York City, NY news updated hourly from thousands of sources. To see this news on a map, visit YourStreet.com. en-us Good question. And it's an interesting thread on Brooklynian. Here's one response: The answer is Neergard. But it's interesting to talk about the other old places. O'Connors bar... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798862/brooklynian-what-s-the-oldest-biz-in-park-slope You won't want to miss this event if you live in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy or Prospect Heights and you're looking for a pre-school for your kid: The Preschool Round-Up... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798865/preschool-roundup-for-fort-greene-clinton-hill-bed-stuy-and-prospect Brit in Brooklyn checked out the opening of "Brooklyn At Eye Level," which started it limited run last night at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Click here for a note from director Michael... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798899/brooklyn-at-eye-level-opening-night Noticing New York blogger Michael D. D. White is a curious mix of lawyer and urban planner with expertise in the public and private sector. Today White posted a four-part series... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798898/will-it-come-what-the-bloomberg-administration-wills-at-willets-point Brooklyn got the "Real World," but does the "Real World" get Brooklyn? Yes and no. Some of the MTV reality stars who spent four months in a converted Red Hook warehouse gushed... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798336/b-klyn-gets-real-mtv-world-cast-not-all-hooked-by-nabe The former Staten Island firefighter bashed with a chair during a raucous New Year's Eve celebration five years ago won a $3.75 million payout from the city Thursday. http://www.yourstreet.com/4798337/bravest-disabled-in-firehouse-brawl-settles-for-3-75m Penn State fencers will be heading to New York Saturday where they will compete in the first NCAA tournament of the season. Both the men's and women's teams will be taking 30... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798923/fencers-head-to-new-york-for-important-tournament Sean Avery surged past camera crews and reporters in Manhattan Thursday, choosing to save his comments this time for NHL commissioner Gary Bettman during a three-hour... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798758/avery-pleads-case-but-not-to-media What happened on the day after Thanksgiving at a Long Island, N.Y., Wal-Mart pretty much sums up the wretched pursuit of a deal and a buck that has become the American way. http://www.yourstreet.com/4797589/quest-for-bargains-is-deadly NEW YORK - A period of relative calm on Wall Street ended yesterday as stocks tumbled in the final hour of trading on investor anxiety ahead of the government's November... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798402/dow-tumbles-amid-fears-of-jobless-report A quick-thinking 14-year-old girl escaped the clutches of a pervert after he left her alone in the parking lot of a Bronx motel while he went inside to book a room, police said. http://www.yourstreet.com/4797485/savvy-girl-14-gives-perv-kidnapper-the-slip NEW YORK: A period of relative calm on Wall Street ended Thursday as stocks tumbled in the final hour of trading on growing investor anxiety ahead of the government's November... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797400/investors-jittery-about-jobs Erin is the newest contributor to Mommy Poppins. She writes a blog about the Bronx, called BoogieDowner, and will be keeping us up to speed with all the great goings on in... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797308/5-off-the-beaten-track-holiday-activities-in-the-bronx My friend, Sara, and I were talking about how great it is to go to school fairs. I especially love them when they have rummage sales, which are great for picking up gently used... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797300/free-play-december-6-7-2008-winter-family-festivals-pregnant-new A couple of weeks ago Tracy Collins and I lead a class as part of Photography Week at Starting Artists . The shots taken by the students on our street photography walk can be... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797444/smith-street-safari Jets defensive end Shaun Ellis, a team captain, was arrested for possession of marijuana during a traffic stop last Saturday morning near the team's training facility in Florham... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798759/shaun-ellis-busted-for-pot-will-play The big news yesterday out of the Commission on Metropolitan Transportation Authority Financing, led by Richard Ravitch, concerned proposals for a“mobility tax” on payrolls;... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797315/ravitch-commission-says-if-you-read-between-the-lines-don-t-do-deals Nation STARBUCKS’ PROFIT FALLING SHORT OF EXPECTATIONS NEW YORK — Starbucks warned Wall Street on Thursday that its profit would fall short of analysts’ expectations this... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797168/business-briefs StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Boston 18 2 .900 — New Jersey 9 8 .529 71/2 Toronto 8 9 .471 81/2 New York 8 10 .444 9 Philadelphia 8 11 .421 91/2... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797147/nba-scoreboard Cries of anguish filled the air as a military jury last night found Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez not guilty of premeditated murder in the slaying of Army Capt. Phillip Esposito... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797526/military-jury-delivers-not-guilty-verdict NoLandGrab has posted an animated slideshow of the demolition of the houses at 487 and 489 Dean Street, which fulfills the prediction of blight I and others made. http://www.yourstreet.com/4797325/on-dean-street-a-slide-show-shows-blight WEST HARRISON - A group of people concerned with the issues confronting parents in sports gathered last night at Fordham University's Westchester campus in West Harrison. http://www.yourstreet.com/4797520/panel-ponders-parents-sports-role FOR Regis Philbin, a garden variety fender-bender isn't enough. He had to hit a cop car. The ABC talk show host was leaving a party in Greenwich, Conn. on Nov. 12 when he backed... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796821/off-easy THE bad economy has hit the reporters at City Hall, who are normally invited to Gracie Mansion each Christmas season to wine and dine with Mayor Bloomberg. The scribes just... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796818/no-free-dinner THE rental listing of the SoHo apartment where Heath Ledger accidentally overdosed has been pulled without a taker willing to cough up $26,000 per month. The Post's Braden Keil... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796820/just-too-spooky The management of the famous Hotel Chelsea, where many artists, writers and musicians have lived, has been renovating -- and some residents aren't happy. One room being redone... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796613/battle-over-famous-bob-dylan-room-at-hotel-chelsea EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Antonio Pierce settled in behind the podium yesterday with a confident grin, attempting to portray business as usual. http://www.yourstreet.com/4797522/giants-pierce-addresses-media-but-doesn-t-say-much "HOME": Three actors playing more than 25 roles tell the story of a black man's move from North Carolina to New York in the '50s. Signature Theater Company, 555 W. 42nd St.; 212... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796837/previews Starbucks warned Wall Street yesterday that its profit would fall short of analysts' expectations this quarter during a New York conference that began with Chief Executive... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798671/starbucks-issues-profit-warning During the eight years Benjamin Mathew lived in Mumbai, India, there were two bombing attacks in the city - one that he saw firsthand four years ago, when a train bomb exploded... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797530/jewish-indian-students-hold-mumbai-tribute Airlines, which assert that they own landing slots at Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark Liberty airports, hate the idea of an auction. http://www.yourstreet.com/4796577/u-s-to-auction-slots-soon-at-new-york-city-airports HANOVER, N.J. - Police charged Jets defensive lineman Shaun Ellis, a team captain, with possession of marijuana, driving without insurance and speeding after a highway traffic... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797523/jets-ellis-facing-numerous-charges GET TANKED Sea - December 6 Built 70 years ago, the Mary A. Whalen spent most of her maritime life delivering oil along the Eastern Seaboard. Now, the decommissioned 172-foot... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796838/weekend-hot-picks-in-entertainment HOLIDAY MARKETS: Search for gifts at the finest holiday markets around town: Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall, Bryant Park and Union Square Park... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796831/fairs-fests-etc JOE'S PUB: Doug Elkins' "Fraulein Maria" takes a modern, semi-comedic look at "The Sound of Music" tonight at 7:30, tomorrow at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m., and Thursday at 7:30 p.m. 425... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796832/dance "BACK BACK BACK": ** Itamar Moses' disjointed play is inspired by baseball's steroids scandal. New York City Center Stage II, 131 W. 55th St.; 212-581-1212. Closes Jan. 4. ... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796834/off-broadway "ALL MY SONS": **½: Arthur Miller's period piece is given a starry cast (John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, Katie Holmes) who were apparently told to shout their lungs... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796829/broadway Prosecutors piled more damning evidence Thursday on three ex-cons charged with killing a Brooklyn cop as experts testified about DNA left on a murder weapon and other items at... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797486/dna-tied-to-thugs-in-cop-slay THE Alvin Ailey Ameri can Dance Theater threw itself a birthday party at City Center Wednesday night, celebrating a 50-year journey, from modest inception in 1958 to its current... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796826/half-century-of-artistic-vision Mike Teel celebrated Senior Night Thursday night by completing 21 of 26 passes for 447 yards and seven touchdowns - both school records - as the Scarlet Knights raced to a 63-14... http://www.yourstreet.com/4798760/rutgers-routs-way-to-bowl TARRYTOWN - An employee trying to clear a small ball from a separating screen at a Westchester County sewage treatment plant yesterday was sprayed with white corn-starch powder... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797514/stress-ball-at-sewage-plant-douses-worker-with-corn-starch From the initial moments of the pianist Piotr Anderszewski’s recital at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night, a frisson of drama ran through his delicate balance of sound and space. http://www.yourstreet.com/4797179/music-review-piotr-anderszewski-classical-pianist-digs-deep-as-his YOU would think that by now budding filmmakers would have given up on making a "Woody Allen movie." Not so Jonathan Blitstein, director, producer, writer and editor of the East... http://www.yourstreet.com/4796816/let-them-chirp-awhile “House of Saddam,” an HBO mini-series, is about the private life of a deadly dictator who self-destructed at a cost to Iraq — and to the United States — that has yet to be... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797177/tv-review-house-of-saddam-hussein-family-values The driver of the bus was issued summonses, and the police were continuing to investigate the death of Jasmine Paragas, a 14-year-old honors student. http://www.yourstreet.com/4796581/girl-14-is-struck-and-killed-by-a-school-bus-in-queens An Elmsford man, later charged with DWI, was driving with a license suspended 30 times when he led troopers on a Tuesday night chase from the Sprain Brook Parkway onto... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797527/cops-suspect-had-30-license-suspensions A panel set up to find ways to rescue the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from debt yesterday suggested a tax on businesses' payrolls, tolls on East River bridges and fare... http://www.yourstreet.com/4797525/panel-urges-8-mta-fare-hikes The troupe opened its annual five-week season at New York City Center on Wednesday evening with the best gala I have attended in decades. http://www.yourstreet.com/4797178/dance-review-alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater-one-foot-in-the A videotape that shows a Yonkers police officer body-slamming a woman in a restaurant might have been doctored, the officer's lawyer said yesterday. http://www.yourstreet.com/4797515/lawyer-tape-in-yonkers-police-brutality-case-was-doctored Christine Shand was angry that her daughter's teacher, who is white, bound the girl and another black student during a lesson on slavery at Haverstraw Middle School. http://www.yourstreet.com/4797524/mom-upset-teacher-tied-girl-in-slave-lesson